I’ve encountered George Collins‘ music in many guises and myriad forms; he is certainly not an artist who pursues just one sonic path, so every new song is the veritable sonic box of chocolates. Here, he goes big; this is George in anthemic rock-pop mode, the perfect blend of fist-in-the-air anthemics and infectious melody, music made at the point on the Venn Diagram where pop and rock overlap to form a new and perfect sonic segment.
Inspired by the line in A Clockwork Orange, “It’s part of the new way,” but here used more positively, advocating that an increasing number of people feel that enough is enough and change is coming… for the better. And it starts with each of us acting upon such thoughts, even if it is the smallest of changes, the minuscule shift in how we live our lives; it’s the snowflake analogy coming back as an avalanche to bury the powers that be.
He drives that sentiment home with classic rock riffs, soaks it in dark, brooding atmospherics, expands the sound with heavenly harmonies, and washes synth and organ sounds until it is ornate and eloquent, big and, indeed, clever.
It’s riotous and rabble-rousing, big and bold; it’s the sort of song that starts rebellions!
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[…] George Collins makes music that is the sonic equivalent of the Great American Novel. Like that canon of work, no two of his songs are the same. Yet, they all adhere to a particular set of standards – traditional yet forward-thinking, fresh and vibrant yet familiar and reassuring, music that sounds like you have been listening to it all your life. […]